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SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 555,417, dated February 25, 1896.

Application filed May 29,1894. Serial No. 512,874. (No model.)

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Be it known that LBERNHARD BARON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oontinuous- Cigarette Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of cigarettes; and my invention consists in means for forming the loose tobacco into a rod, for applying the wrapper thereto and pasting the edges of the wrapper together, and for cutting the continuous cigarette into suitable lengths, all as fully set forth hereinafter, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cigarettemachine embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view longitudinally through the machine at one side of the operating devices. Fig. 3 is an enlarged View of the molding devices and adjuncts, the parts above the compressing or molding disks being removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional plan showing the parts directly below the moldingdisks or compressors. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5, Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a plan of the wrapping-trough, showing the folding-disks and pasting-wheel in dotted lines. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the wrapping-trough. Figs. 8 to 13 are cross-sections on the lines 8 13, Fig. 7. Fig. 14 is an enlarged plan of the folding and pasting devices. Fig. 15 is a sectional elevation on the line 15, Fig. 3. Fig. 16 is a transverse section on the line 16, Fig. 15. Fig. 17 is a transverse section on the line 17*, Fig. 15. Fig. 18, Sheet 5, is a plan of the wrapping-trough with the parts above all removed. Fig. 19 is an enlarged cross-section on the line 19 Fig. 2. Fig. 20 is a perspective view of the link connections between the compressing-roll bearings. Fig. 21 is an enlarged cross-section on the line 21, Fig. 2. Fig. 22 is a sectional elevation on the line 22, Fig. 14. Fig. 23 is an elevation looking in the direction of the arrow 23, Fig. 14. Fig. 24 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the paste-reservoir and paste-feeding appli-' ances. Fig. 24 is a cross-section on the line 24, Fig. 24. Fig. 25 is a vertical section on the line 25,'Fig. 24. Fig. 26 is a perspective view of a catch device. Fig. 27 is a crosssection on the line 27*, Fig. 24. Fig. 28 is an enlarged sectional plan on the line 28, Fig. 2. Fig. 29 is an enlarged sectional plan on the line 29, Fig. 1. Fig. 30 is an enlarged transverse section on the line 30 Fig. 2. Fig. 31 is a transverse section on the line 31, Fig.30. Fig. 32 is an enlarged transverse section on the line 32, Fig. 2. Fig. 33 is an enlarged side elevation showing the parts above the compressing-disks. Fig. 34 is a plan of the parts shown in Fig. 33. Fig. 35, Sheet 2, is a perspective View illustrating the devices for supporting the compressing-blade above the wrapping-trough. Fig. 36 is a vertical section illustrating the bearings for the folderwheels.

The frame A carries the parts that operate upon the tobacco, which is properly distributed upon a traveling belt 6, Figs. 1 and 2, by the action of a feeder device B, also carried by the frame A.

The tobacco upon the belt 6 passes between grooved molding-disks, of which there may be one or more pairs. As shown, it passes first between the edges of two horizontal grooved molding or compressing wheels or disks 3 3, between guide-blocks 7 7, and between the edges of horizontal grooved molding or compressing wheels or disks 4 4, and is thence car ried onto a strip of paper 00 carried by a tape 40. The tape and the paper are turned up to a U shape, one edge of the paper is turned in, the inner face of the standing edge has paste applied to it, the said standing edge is then turned down upon the inturned edge and cemented thereto, forming a wrapper-tube inclosing a tobacco rod, and this inclosed rod then passes to the cutting devices which sever the continuous cigarette into cigarettes.

I do not here describe the construction and operation of the feeder which constitutes the subject of a separate application for Letters Patent, filed November 17, 1893, Serial No. 491,215.

The molderz-The feeder distributes the tobacco loosely upon the face of the'traveling belt 6, and between two guide-bars400 400, and as the tobacco is carried between the edges of the wheels or disks 3 3 the tobacco is compressed laterally and is confined between the wheels or disks, the horizontal portion of the belt 0' which passes below the wheels, and an upper endless belt 5, the lower horizontal portion of which lies close upon the tops of the wheels or disks, being carried by two rolls 41 41. The peripheral grooves in the disks 3 3 are greater in depth than those in the disks 4 4, and the intermediate blocks 7 7 have their curved sides seated in said grooves so closely that the tobacco cannot pass between the blocks and disks. These blocks 7 7 are preferably free from positive engagement with the adjacent portion of the bed-plate or frame of the machine, and merely restloosely thereon, and are held in position by engagement with the peripheral grooves of the disks 3 4, each block being loosely clamped in place between the disks by a screw 9, Figs. 3 and 21, passing horizontally through a bearing-block S, engagin the disks at the opposite side. It follows from this construction that the blocks are at all times free to accommodate themselves to the position of the disks, and that as the latter are adjusted from time to time, as occasion may require, the blocks are moved at the sametime, owing to their engagement with the disks, and thus all danger of the blocks binding against the disks, liable to occur where the blocks are positively secured to stationary supports between the disks, is avoided. The disks of each pair are adjustable to and from each other through the medium of any suitable devices. As shown, the shafts 26 of the disks 3 3 pass through elongated bearin gs 20 in frames 10 10, Figs. 1 and 19, each frame 10 being pivoted to swing around the bearing of one of the shafts 27 of one of the disks 4, and the two frames 10 10 are connected by two toggle-links 12 11 pivoted together, an arm 12 of the link 2, Figs. 4 and 19, terminating in a finger 13 that ex tends into a groove 16 (see dotted lines, Fig. at) in a nut turning on a stationary screwshaft 17 below the bed-plate or table 0 of the machine. By turning the nut 15 the links may be adjusted to swing the frames 10 10 to or from each other, and each frame 10 may be secured in position after adjustment by a binding-serew 11 passing through a slot in the said frame.

The shafts 27 of the disks 1 are carried in elongated bearings 27, Fig. 21, of slides 25, sliding laterally between guides 30 30, and each with a slot through which passes a setscrew 38.

The slides 25 and their disks are adjusted to and from each other by means of a fiat lever 170, (see dotted lines, Fig.4, and full lines, Fig. 21,)pivoted to the table by a pivot 22 and having two inclined slots 23,each of which receives a stud 2:1: projecting from the bottom of one of the slides 25. At the end of the lever 170 is an arm 18, Fig. 21, having a lip 19, that enters a groove 21 in a nut 20 upon the screwshaft 17, so that by adjusting said nut the lever may be swung to carry the slides and their disks to and from each other.

The molding and compressing wheels or disks are all driven from the main shaft 1, Fig. 19, through the medium of an inclined shaft 41 geared to the shaft 1 and to a beveled wheel 38 at the lower end of a short shaft 43, Figs. 2 and 19, carrying at tlie upper end a gear 37. The gear 37 engages a gear 36 at the lower end of one of the shafts 27, and the latter also carries a gear 35, which drives a gear 31 upon one of the shafts 26 through the medium of the gear 34. A gear 33, Fig. 19, engages the gear 37 and transmits motion to another gear 32, which drives the lower gear 36 of the other shaft 27, and the latter drives the adjacent shaft 26 through the medium of gears 31, the same as shown in Fig. 2 on the opposite side.

In order to set the machine properly and to get access to the parts from time to time, support the upper endless belt 5 upon a movable frame D, which may be of any suitable character. This frame swings about the shaft 45, extending transversely across the table and driven by two pairs of gears 48 50 and an inclined shaft, Fig. 1, from the shaft 1. The rear roller 41 is secured to the shaft 45, Fig. 2, and the front roller-41 is adjustable to and from the rear roller so as to tighten the belt 5. Any suit-able appliances may be employed for this adjustment.

The frame D carries a plate 52, which lies directly above the lower horizontal portion of the belt 5 to prevent the latter from curving upward under pressure of the tobacco, and I have found it to be important to press the traveling belts firmly against the molding wheels or disks, and I therefore carry the lower or feed belt over the flat top of a portion of the table or platform, and I lock the frame D so as to hold the upper plate 52 firmly in position. Any suitable means may be employed for locking the frame I) in its lower position. As shown I make use of a lockingframe E, Fig. 21, which swings upon a pivot 55 at one side of the machine, carries set.- screws 250 250, that bear upon the forward end of the frame D, as shown in Figs. 2 and 21, and is secured by a spring-catch 56. By unlocking the catch 56 and turning the frame E hack to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 21, the frame D is released and can then. be swung to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, to permit access to the working parts of the molding device.

It is desirable in some instances to exert a pressure upon the tobacco after it leaves the molding wheels or disks, and I therefore support in rear of the said wheels a vertical grooved wheel 57, which turns at the outer end of a frame F, also pivoted to the shaft 45 and capable of being turned down to the position shown in, full lines, Figs. land 2, or swung back to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

When the frame F is down in the position shown in Fig. 2, it is locked to the lockingframe E by any suitable locking device--as, for instance, by means of a catch 58, Fig. 2- 

